Academic Articles & Research Papers

Federated Learning in Computer Vision

Federated Learning (FL) has recently emerged as a novel machine learning paradigm allowing to preserve privacy and to account for the distributed nature of the learning process in many real-world settings. Computer vision tasks deal with hu...

Advanced Swine Management: Infrared Imaging for Precise Localization of Reproductive Organs in Livestock Monitoring

Traditional methods for predicting sow reproductive cycles are not only costly but also demand a larger workforce, exposing workers to respiratory toxins, repetitive stress injuries, and chronic pain. This occupational hazard can even lead ...

Improved U-Net Model for Road Crack Detection Based on Residual and Attention Mechanism

Road cracks are an important part of road safety detection，and with the development of deep learning and computer vision，methods for extracting crack information in road images using deep learning methods are maturing.Existing deep learning...

Multi‐object tracking using dominant sets

Multi‐object tracking is an interesting but challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most previous works based on data association techniques merely take into account the relationship between detection responses in a locally limite...

Real Time Eye Detector with Cascaded Convolutional Neural Networks

An accurate and efficient eye detector is essential for many computer vision applications. In this paper, we present an efficient method to evaluate the eye location from facial images. First, a group of candidate regions with regional extr...

Repurposing a commercial artificial intelligence vision platform for automated surgical instrument identification: a proof-of-concept study

Abstract Background Retained surgical items are classified as never events but continue to occur, and the count meant to prevent them is often recorded as correct even when an item is retained. Computer vision could provide an independent c...

A Complete System for Automated Semantic–Geometric Mapping of Corrosion in Industrial Environments

Corrosion, a naturally occurring process leading to the deterioration of metallic materials, demands diligent detection for quality control and the preservation of metal-based objects, especially within industrial contexts. Traditional tech...

Deep Neural Networks and Kernel Density Estimation for Detecting Human Activity Patterns from Geo-Tagged Images: A Case Study of Birdwatching on Flickr

Thanks to recent advances in high-performance computing and deep learning, computer vision algorithms coupled with spatial analysis methods provide a unique opportunity for extracting human activity patterns from geo-tagged social media ima...

Reliable Parkinson’s Disease Detection by Analyzing Handwritten Drawings: Construction of an Unbiased Cascaded Learning System Based on Feature Selection and Adaptive Boosting Model

Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease of central nervous system (CNS). Till now, there is no definitive clinical examination that can diagnose a PD patient. However, it has been reported that PD patien...

Learn Computer Vision Using OpenCV

Build practical applications of computer vision using the OpenCV library with Python. This book discusses different facets of computer vision such as image and object detection, tracking and motion analysis and their applications with examp...

Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A Brief Review

Over the last years deep learning methods have been shown to outperform previous state-of-the-art machine learning techniques in several fields, with computer vision being one of the most prominent cases. This review paper provides a brief ...

A coarse to fine network for fast and accurate object detection in high‐resolution images

Abstract Because of the popularisation of high‐resolution images, detecting objects in these images quickly and accurately has attracted increasing attention in recent studies. Current convolutional neural networks (CNN)‐based detection met...

A Systematic YOLO-Specific Model Selection for Mechanical Fault Identification in High-Voltage Insulators

Regular monitoring of outdoor insulators is crucial to ensure the reliable functioning of the power grid. With recent progress in computer vision technologies, traditional manual and expensive visual inspections can now be replaced by autom...

Implementation and Design of a Smart Pharmacy Automation System Using Raspberry Pi

Manual medication dispensing in pharmacies remains prone to human errors and is time-intensive, particularly under high patient loads, while existing commercial automation solutions are cost-prohibitive for small to medium-sized pharmacy se...

The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop

Wheat stripe rust disease (WRD) is extremely detrimental to wheat crop health, and it severely affects the crop yield, increasing the risk of food insecurity. Manual inspection by trained personnel is carried out to inspect the disease spre...

AN IMPROVED MASK R-CNN: EXTRACTION OF DOOR AND WINDOW INSTANCES ON VILLAGE BUILDING FAÇADE IMAGES

Rapid access to the basic structure of village buildings is conducive to the investigation of the load-bearing bodies of village houses and provides data support for disaster assessment and post-disaster rescue and reconstruction. The devel...

TSER: A Two-Stage Character Segmentation Network With Two-Stream Attention and Edge Refinement

Segmenting characters in an image is a classic yet challenging task in computer vision. Correctly determining boundaries of adhesive characters with various scales and shapes is essential for character segmentation, especially for separatin...

A review of computer vision–based structural health monitoring at local and global levels

Structural health monitoring at local and global levels using computer vision technologies has gained much attention in the structural health monitoring community in research and practice. Due to the computer vision technology application a...

Advances in Machine Learning Paradigms for Reliable Swimming Pool Drowning Detection: Systematic Review of Methods and Implementations.

Image Motion Extraction of Structures Using Computer Vision Techniques: A Comparative Study

Vibrational measurements play an important role for structural health monitoring, e.g., modal extraction and damage diagnosis. Moreover, conditions of civil structures can be mostly assessed by displacement responses. However, installing di...